A spectrometer that resolves spectral lines using the angular dispersion of a diffraction grating. A narrow slit at a collimator focal plane supplies nearly parallel illumination; a telescope or focusing lens forms separate images for different outgoing angles. At normal incidence, the grating equation is . The slit width, illuminated groove count, aberrations and detector sampling jointly determine whether a calculated angular separation is actually resolved.
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